Senior Utilities Engineer - Civils/Structural Water & Waste

AWE is recruiting for a Senior Utilities Engineer - Civils/Structural Water & Wastewater.

Location: Reading / Basingstoke Area

Salary: £47,690 - £70,000 (dependent on experience and suitability for the role)

Closing Date: 7th October 2024

As part of our People Promise, AWE has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:

1. Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work).
2. Consideration for flexible working arrangements.
3. Opportunities for Professional Career Development, including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors, and training.
4. Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
5. A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution).
6. Life Assurance.
7. Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
8. Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service, and caring for your family.
9. A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing.

What's a day like in the life of a Senior Utilities Engineer?

As a Senior Utilities Engineer, you will be responsible for the delivery of professional engineering services to enable the Utilities Engineering Team Leader to deliver utility services to facilities, assets, and equipment required by AWE.

In addition to providing subject matter knowledge, a typical day may include undertaking civil/structural water & wastewater design activities, design reviews, calculations, change control, load coordination, strategic assessments, configuration control, asset management, reliability engineering, and other tasking as directed.

A Senior Utilities Engineer in the Utilities Engineering Team will engage with operational areas, project teams, capital projects, design and technical authorities, senior management, and other estate areas.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Adherence to management system requirements for Utilities Engineering activities.
2. Provide engineering intelligence to Utilities Engineering.
3. Delivery of engineering tasks for utilities networks.
4. Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security, and quality.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Apply domain and technical knowledge for design, as-built standards, and through-life system performance for relevant network plant and equipment.
2. Ensure availability of utilities plant, equipment, and infrastructure within relevant networks.
3. Ensure maintenance of configuration baseline and provision of load connection and disconnection authorisations for relevant networks.
4. Provide specialist engineering knowledge for design, installation, commissioning, and troubleshooting on network plant equipment and infrastructure.
5. Identify and escalate business risk associated with the condition and performance of network plant equipment and infrastructure.
6. Optimise the delivery of Utilities Engineering services.
7. Ensure compliance for relevant network plant and equipment.

The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.

Minimum Requirements:

Whilst not to be considered a checklist, candidates should be able to demonstrate some of the following:

1. HNC/HND with suitable additional experience, or (desirable) degree with additional experience. Preferably IEng or CEng.
2. Prior operational and engineering experience in an industrial or utilities environment, in civils/structural areas of water and wastewater, treatment, distribution, and building services.
3. An ability to provide engineering capability across relevant networks, comprising a range of infrastructure facilities and associated plant and equipment.
4. An ability to solve complex problems/issues using tested solutions, undertaking packages of design work as necessary.
5. Experience of working in a highly regulated environment with an understanding of nuclear and explosives area requirements.
6. Candidates must be willing and able to apply, obtain, and maintain the required security clearance for the role.